✅ SOLVED Need help from the button experts

[Erving]

I posted this button in the todays find forum a couple days ago, and thought it was an authentic post War of 1812 infintry button. Since then, it has been mentioned that since it doesn't have any backmark, it is a reproduction. I'd really like to know for sure if it's authentic or not, so any input would be greatly appreciated. It measures 19mm. Thanks.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Although its true nearly all Reproduction buttons lack a backmark, the lack does not automatically mean a button is a Repro. You've got one of the exceptions... a blank-backed Original. Specifically, it is a 1-piece brass Militia (not US army issue) button, from the 1810s-20s. It is shown in the Albert button-book as GI-67, with only one listed backmark, "Best Quality / London." Thus, the GI-67 buttons are British-made. The most likely reason yours is blank-backed: The American public boycotted British-made goods for about 10 years after the War-Of-1812. So, manufacturers tended to omit marking their products with any sign of British origin.

Deliberate "absence of origin-marking" was also done during the civil war, by yankee and British manufacturers who were selling goods to the Confederacy.

 

[Erving]

Thank you so much for your responce CannonballGuy. It's nice to know for sure.